Joseph Wilson: Liar

Here is the entire piece from Powerline Blog regarding the lies of Joseph Wilson:

Joseph Wilson, Liar

One of the most stunning revelations contained in the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA is that virtually everything Joseph Wilson has said about his trip to Niger, and the report that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger, is a lie.

First, contrary to what Wilson has said publicly, his wife, CIA employee Valerie Plame, did recommend him for the Niger investigation:

The report states that a CIA official told the Senate committee that Plame "offered up" Wilson's name for the Niger trip, then on Feb. 12, 2002, sent a memo to a deputy chief in the CIA's Directorate of Operations saying her husband "has good relations with both the PM [prime minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity." The next day, the operations official cabled an overseas officer seeking concurrence with the idea of sending Wilson, the report said.

Confronted yesterday with the Senate report, Wilson could only offer a non sequitur and a lame denial:

Wilson stood by his assertion in an interview yesterday, saying Plame was not the person who made the decision to send him. Of her memo, he said: "I don't see it as a recommendation to send me."

Further, the Senate report indicates that Plame and Wilson, from the beginning, had an absurdly biased view of the subject Wilson was supposed to be investigating: "The report said Plame told committee staffers that she relayed the CIA's request to her husband, saying, 'there's this crazy report' about a purported deal for Niger to sell uranium to Iraq."

As has been widely reported, Wilson conducted a half-baked investigation into the uanium report. But here is the most astonishing fact uncovered by the Senate Intelligence Committee: in his book and in countless interviews and op-ed pieces over the past year, Wilson has been lying about the contents of his own report to the CIA!:

The report also said Wilson provided misleading information to The Washington Post last June. He said then that he concluded the Niger intelligence was based on documents that had clearly been forged because "the dates were wrong and the names were wrong."

"Committee staff asked how the former ambassador could have come to the conclusion that the 'dates were wrong and the names were wrong' when he had never seen the CIA reports and had no knowledge of what names and dates were in the reports," the Senate panel said. Wilson told the panel he may have been confused and may have "misspoken" to reporters. The documents -- purported sales agreements between Niger and Iraq -- were not in U.S. hands until eight months after Wilson made his trip to Niger.

Wilson's reports to the CIA added to the evidence that Iraq may have tried to buy uranium in Niger, although officials at the State Department remained highly skeptical, the report said.

Wilson said that a former prime minister of Niger, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, was unaware of any sales contract with Iraq, but said that in June 1999 a businessman approached him, insisting that he meet with an Iraqi delegation to discuss "expanding commercial relations" between Niger and Iraq -- which Mayaki interpreted to mean they wanted to discuss yellowcake sales. A report CIA officials drafted after debriefing Wilson said that "although the meeting took place, Mayaki let the matter drop due to UN sanctions on Iraq."

According to the former Niger mining minister, Wilson told his CIA contacts, Iraq tried to buy 400 tons of uranium in 1998.

So: what Wilson actually told the CIA, contrary to his own oft-repeated claims, is that he was told by the former mining minister of Niger that in 1998, Iraq had tried to buy 400 tons of uranium from that country, and that Iraq's overture was renewed the following year. What Wilson reported to the CIA was exactly the same as what President Bush said in his 2003 State of the Union address: there was evidence that Iraq had tried to buy uranium in Africa.

Recall Wilson's famous op-ed in the New York Times, published on July 6, 2003, which ignited the whole firestorm over the famous "sixteen words" in Bush's State of the Union speech. In that op-ed, Wilson identified himself as the formerly-unnamed person who had gone to Niger to investigate rumors of a possible uranium deal between Iraq and Niger. Here are the key words in Wilson's article:

[I]n January, President Bush, citing the British dossier, repeated the charges about Iraqi efforts to buy uranium from Africa. The next day, I reminded a friend at the State Department of my trip and suggested that if the president had been referring to Niger, then his conclusion was not borne out by the facts as I understood them.

It was this flat-out lie about what Wilson learned in Niger, and what he reported to the CIA upon his return, that fueled the "sixteen words" controversy and led to the publication of Wilson's best-selling account, titled, ironically, The Politics of Truth.

One can only conclude that Joseph Wilson has perpetrated one of the most astonishing hoaxes in American history. But here is what I really don't get: didn't the administration have access to all of this information about Wilson's report? And if so, why didn't they use it when Wilson was dominating the news cycle with his lies?

Here We Go--All Over Again

A soldier, injured in Iraq, holding a sign supporting Bush was called a "Baby Killer!" in a July 4th Parade.

Researching Break

I am taking a break from blogging until tomorrow because I have some research to do. My brother bought Fahrenheit 9-11 bootleg DVD that I am going to watch. I also bought the following books today that I want to have read by tomorrow:

No Blood for Oil!

We already know that France supports murderous, dictatorial regimes...but Instapundit points to France's refusal to allow the UN to stop the genocide in the Sudan is because they have a large interest in Sudanese OIL!

NO BLOOD FOR OIL!

Must READ!

Please read this.

Random Thoughts of Thomas Sowell #3

...Nations do not wait for iron-clad proof when there are lethal threats. The massive Manhattan Project that produced the first atomic bomb was begun when the United States was at peace because of reports that Hitler's scientists were working on such a weapon.

We had no proof -- and, after Germany surrendered, it turned out that Hitler's atomic bomb project was nowhere near the stage that we feared. But we couldn't take that chance.

People who talk glibly about "intelligence failure" act as if intelligence agencies that are doing their job right would know everything. But intelligence-gathering has always been a chancy business. In a nuclear age, the only thing that makes sense is to fail safe -- and strike pre-emptively, if necessary. If that offends people who think and talk in abstract terms about international law, then it is better that they be offended than that we wake up some morning and find New York or Chicago in radioactive ruins.

It was Saddam Hussein who chose to play cat-and-mouse with the weapons inspectors whom he had agreed to let monitor Iraqi facilities as part of the peace treaty ending the first Gulf War. It was his intelligence failure to think that he could keep on doing that indefinitely.

Iran and North Korea -- the other nations identified as part of the "axis of evil" -- are now playing the same cat-and-mouse game, and North Korea is openly threatening to produce nuclear bombs. Either or both these countries are potential suppliers of such weapons to international terrorists.

Libya backed out of the nuclear weapons game after Qadaffi saw what happened to Saddam Hussein in Iraq. What would have emboldened Iran and North Korea? Only a disunited America, full of loud irresponsible election-year talk about "lies" on weapons of mass destruction, making it unlikely that the United States can muster the political will to strike Iran or North Korea...

Read the rest here.

Bush Comes Out Swinging

I suspect a media blitz between now and the DNC in Boston. Bush/Cheney is not going to give the Democrats any breathing room...Check out this new ad about John Kerry's Priorities.

Update: an AP poll from July 5-6 now shows Bush with a 4pt lead over Kerry-Edwards that is outside the margin of error.

What Terrorists?

Patriots for Bush states that the Kerry Camp is denouncing the Homeland Security Department's warning of terrorist attacks. Even Sens. Charles Schumer and Barbara Boxer found the evidence presented as "disturbing."

This has and will be the tactic of Democrats FOREVER as they have no stance on any issue other than HATE BUSH. They sling the mud and want the public to believe it's true, then when the facts demonstrate otherwise, they find something else to whine about.

Bush is trying to keep our babies and women safe; Kerry is just trying to be president. Bush understands that this election is not about HIM but things much greater; Kerry believes the election is about winning and nothing else.

France Loves Murderous Dictatorial Regimes

Bounce through Instapundit and discover that France opposes UN sanctions on the Sudan where hundreds of thousands of black Africans are being murdered by Arab Janjaweed militias.

I think it is time to discuss replacing France on the UN Security Counsel with India.

Caching!

John Edwards invests his money in Europe and the Pacific Rim, which helps create jobs for people overseas...here.

Then look at Edwards' spending record here.

Those Infamous 16 Words...

From the Financial Times by way of Captain's Quarters:

A UK government inquiry into the intelligence used to justify the war in Iraq is expected to conclude that Britain's spies were correct to say that Saddam Hussein's regime sought to buy uranium from Niger.

And then there's this from FOXNews:

Twenty experts from DOE's national laboratory complex packaged 1.77 metric tons of low-enriched uranium and roughly 1000 highly radioactive sources from the former Iraq nuclear research facility. The DOD airlifted the material to the United States on June 23 and provided security, coordination, planning, ground transportation, and funding for the mission.

So how did Bush lie again?

In Desperate Move, Kerry Adopts Puppy

Ann discusses John Edwards famous CP case...

In one of Edwards' silver-tongued arguments to the jury on behalf of a girl born with cerebral palsy, he claimed he was channeling the unborn baby girl, Jennifer Campbell, who was speaking to the jurors through him:

"She said at 3, 'I'm fine.' She said at 4, 'I'm having a little trouble, but I'm doing OK.' Five, she said, 'I'm having problems.' At 5:30, she said, 'I need out.'"

She's saying, "My lawyer needs a new Jaguar ... "

"She speaks to you through me and I have to tell you right now -- I didn't plan to talk about this -- right now I feel her. I feel her presence. She's inside me, and she's talking to you."

Well, tell her to pipe down, would you? I'm trying to hear the evidence in a malpractice lawsuit.

Read the rest.

Farmer John

Bloggy goodness oozes all over Kerry Haters...

Afterward, a spokeswoman, Stephanie Cutter, said Kerry was referring to two farm experiences, one when he and his parents lived on a farm in Millis, Mass., and later when he frequented a dairy farm straddling the Ipswich/Hamilton border that was owned by his aunt and uncle. The first farm was where Kerry rode a tractor with a hand who worked the family's property. At the dairy farm, he tilled the land himself.

Pat asks the obvious question: How much tilling of the land needs to be done on a dairy farm?

Then he points us to the Waffle House's new edition: Farmer John

Grand Kleagle of the Ku Klux Clan

Remember my article about the Company You Keep?

This man is a Democrat...are you?

Sen. Byrd, 1947: "[I would] never submit to fight beneath that banner (the American flag) with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."

Sen. Byrd, 2001: "There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much."

Makes you wanna run out and buy this jackass' book; obviously Senator Byrd knows his stuff!



Thanks Michelle.

All Four Stanzas

Oh! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
W hat so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen thro' the mist of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep.
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream
'Tis the star-spangled banner. Oh! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footstep's pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation,
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n - rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, for our cause is just,
And this be our motto--"In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

(pointed to by Anti-idiotarian Rottweiler)

Don't Believe Your Lying Eyes

This should be front page news...thanks, Polipundit.

Twenty experts from DOE's national laboratory complex packaged 1.77 metric tons of low-enriched uranium and roughly 1000 highly radioactive sources from the former Iraq nuclear research facility. The DOD airlifted the material to the United States on June 23 and provided security, coordination, planning, ground transportation, and funding for the mission.

Oh, my bad for thinking there were weapons of mass destruction...

Abort John Kerry

I am not a pro-lifer (yet), but I find the voting record of John Kerry disgusting when laid out by Brent Bozell in his column on Townhall.com.

He's a 100 percent NARAL pro-abortion militant. Partial-birth abortion? He's for that, too. Letting adults other than the parents transport minors across state lines for an abortion? Count him in. The Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which counts the unborn baby as a victim when a pregnant woman is killed or her child is killed against her wishes? He voted against it. Kerry even opposed The Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, which has made it illegal to kill a baby who somehow survives an abortion.

He supports murdering a child that survives an abortion? What??? I've never heard that before; I need to do some more reading about these "choices" women want...

12-week old baby in the womb.

Grab the Violins and Cry Me a River

Bouncing my way through Crush Kerry I came upon this New York Times article about our friends across the pond: LAZY, LAZY PEOPLE. They don't know what to do with themselves now that they have to work 40 hours a week because their economy is in the GUTTER (where as ours is seeing the best growth in 20 years) and they have double-digit unemployment rates to our 5.6% (which is better than the averages of the 70's, 80's and 90's).

They are even upset that they lose their vacation bonuses that pay for their month long summer and winter vacations.

Give me a friggin' break.

Economatriculations Continued

Let's analyze this graph:

1. After negative growth, by 1984, Ronald Reagan had annual GDP growth at 7.2%.
2. When Reagan left office in 1989, GDP growth was at 3.5%.
3. When Bush Sr. left office in 1993, GDP growth was at 3.0%.
4. When Clinton left office in 2001, GDP growth was at 0.75%.
5. With Bush in office in 2004, GDP growth is at 4.7%.

What does that tell us, children?

Treacherous Electioneering by Who Else? Democrats...

Remember that "bi-partisan" letter from members of congress sent to the United Nations asking for them to interfere in our sovereign elections? Well the names are back and they are all democrats...what a surprise!

Here is the response:

"Let me get this straight," wrote Joe Mariani in GOPUSA.com. "A group of Democrats want to bring some people from countries like North Korea, Iran, Syria, China and Cuba – people that have never seen a democratic election in their lifetimes – to sit in judgment on our elections? What kind of voodoo politics is that? The last time a foreign body had any direct influence over the political process of this country, the situation was corrected by a war for our freedom from British rule. Are these so-called Americans so willing to surrender that hard-won right of self-determination now, and to such a shamelessly scandal-ridden group of anti-American dictatorships and terrorist sympathizers? We may as well dissolve the Union now and save ourselves the pain of watching it done for us."

Thank God for people in the government that remember we are not subordinate to the United Nations. And the fact that this is a who's who of black members of congress shouldn't surprise anyone either. My people put all their eggs in one basket and lost; we will continue to lose until these Black Brahmins are given a what-for and given the boot butt-good.


Eddie Bernice Johnson (Tex.)
Named as Crush Kerry's "Judge Smails Baffoon of the Week" for this week.


Joseph Crowley (N.Y.)


Raul Grijalva (Ariz.)


Danny Davis (Ill.)


Corrine Brown (Fla.)


Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.)


Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.)


Michael Honda (Calif.)


Elijah Cummings (Md.)


Julia Carson (Ind.)


Edolphus Towns (N.Y.)

Smokes for Votes

This is probably one of her best columns to date. Normally, she does not tout party lines, but today she reminds us who the party of the people really is: rich, guilty, limousine liberals.

And then there are common Democrat givers such as Connie Milstein. She is just like you and me … if you happen to be the pampered heir to a multibillion-dollar real estate fortune in New York City. Milstein calls herself "an ordinary Park Avenue matron." Really. She is just your usual elbow-rubbing, partisan fund-raiser/philanthropist/business mogul next door.

During the 1999-2000 election cycle alone, Milstein contributed at least $932,515 to various Democratic Party soft money accounts, and spread another $40,000 in hard money donations to various candidates and political committees. In the fall of 2000, Milstein did what any regular Democrat donor would do: She flew herself to Milwaukee and bribed homeless people to vote for Al Gore in exchange for cigarettes. Milstein was caught on video by local ABC affiliate WISN-TV toting bags of cancer sticks for vagrants outside the Milwaukee Rescue Mission.

Then chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee's Major Supporters Committee, Milstein told the TV station she was an official representative of the Gore campaign and "was asked to come down and ring doorbells, go to shelters, see if I can get as many people as I could out to the polls."

It was just your run-of-the-mill campaign to smoke out (er, get out) the vote. Honest.

Wisconsin outlaws the procurement of votes with gifts worth more than $1. It's a felony. But what average Democrat donor lets a little thing like illegality get in the way?

Read entire article here.

And let's not forget the Rapists and Murderers for Kerry discussed here.

More 'Useful Idiots'

I came across this editorial by way of Instapundit by way of USS Clueless. Den Beste did not want to waste valuable time responding to this lunacy--but since my time is worthless I wrote back. My response is in all caps:



Dear editor,

I would not worry about easing the tensions between France and the USA for the following reasons.

Most of the American people feel the way the French do.

MOST FRENCH PEOPLE HATE THEMSELVES? TRUST ME, REGARDLESS OF WHAT AMERICANS THINK OF BUSH, MOST OF US HATE FRENCH POLICY (NOT PEOPLE).

Bush is not the legal President of the country. He was appointed by the Supreme Court even though Gore had the popular vote.

LEGALLY SPEAKING, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "THE POPULAR VOTE" IN THE UNITED STATES. OUR PRESIDENTS ARE ELECTED THROUGH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. BUSH WON THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE WITH 271 POINTS BECAUSE HE WON FLORIDA BY OVER 500 VOTES.

Had Bush won he has started the war in Iraq which voilates the constitution.

THE CEASEFIRE WITH IRAQ FROM THE GULF WAR IN 1991 WAS CONTINGENT ON SADDAM’S COMPLIANCE WITH THE UN; HE FAILED TO COMPLY, THEREFORE, THE CEASEFIRE WAS OVER AND THE WAR WAS A RESUMPTION OF HOSTILITIES.

Congress is the only body that can declare war and they are not empowered to assign that decision to anyone else.

CONGRESS, IN A BIPARTISAN MANNER, AUTHORIZED THE USE OF FORCE IN IRAQ. THE CONGRESS SAW THE SAME INTELLIGENCE AVAILABLE TO THE PRESIDENT AND GAVE HIM THE AUTHORITY TO WAGE WAR AGAINST SADDAM HUSSEIN (NOT FOR WMD) BUT FOR VIOLATION OF 16 UN RESOLUTIONS.

Bush has created the Patriot Act which suspends the rights of the individual so he is holding US citizens in jail without charges.

PATRIOT ACT WAS WRITTEN AND RATTIFIED BY A BIPARTISAN CONGRESS.

Bush has killed a number of people by direct order to the CIA to rocket the cars in a foreign country. That violates the constitution which protects us from harm until tried in a court of law. Everyone has the right to a trial by a jury of their peers.

BUSH SENIOR RECINDED THE EXECUTIVE ORDER (THE ASSASINATION BAN WAS NOT A LAW BY CONGRESS) ALLOWING THE ASSASSINATION OF TERRORISTS AND DRUG CARTEL LEADERS.

Now these are the first four reasons I can think of. There are many others. Lying, Stealing, Cheating, and Fraud against the people of California in the ENRON scandal.

FORMER GOVERNOR GRAY DAVIS, DEMOCRAT, RECEIVED $100,000 DOLLARS FROM ENRON FOR HIS RE-ELECTION CAMPAIN.

The most heinous crime of all is that they have closed the Statue Of Liberty to the public.

THE PORT AUTHORITY, THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STATUE OF LIBERTY--NOT THE PRESIDENT, ANNOUNCED THE STATUE OF LIBERTY WILL REOPEN THIS SUMMER.

A shameful act and disrespectful of the French that gave us the statue and the American children that paid to display it with their pennies.

WE ARE GRATEFUL TO FRANCE FOR THEIR LAST ACT OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE US…OVER 100 YEARS AGO.

Peace on Earth

John D. King

EVERY SENTENCE IN THIS POST IS FACUTALLY WRONG. IF JOHN D. KING DID ANY RESEARCH INSTEAD OF RELYING ON TALKING POINTS AND EMOTIONS HE WOULD KNOW THIS.

Woman Killed in Front of Empty Police Station

A woman was shot dead in Florida by her husband in front of an empty police station. My question is not, "where were the cops?" The story said they were all on assignment. I want to know why she didn't have a gun.

Everyone wants to blame the guns and gun owners for all the murderous impulses that afflict our society.




People like John F'n Kerry (thanks Crush Kerry for the photos)

But I say the man was so angry that he would have stabbed her or strangled her if he didn't have the gun.

And why did she run to a police station and not a cutlery store? Because police have guns and can shoot people dead.

Scary John Kerry

Whilst doing my daily reading of Red Line Rants, I stumbled upon this site. Please view the videos on Taxes, WMD and Michael Moore.

Thanks for the heads-up, Tyler.

Winter Soldier

Read more about John Kerry's Vietnam experience here.

Thanks to Anti-John Kerry.

Foreign Policy Reflections

Jump to Viking Pundit and read his discussion on the latest from the Economist. Here is a quote he provides from the article:

Many people – including many Americans – look despairingly on the global disorder and conclude that this is the world Bush built. They say that he inherited an international system that was working well, but in a show of arrogance after September 11th went on to destroy it by pursuing a pointless vendetta against Iraq’s dictator. It is a view that has the virtue of simplicity. But blaming too much on Mr. Bush has a logical flaw. Well before the Iraq war, indeed before he was even elected, Sudan was at war, Palestine was in flames, and North Korea and Iran were flouting their obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

What might be truer is that Mr. Bush believed that America stood a better chance of solving some of these neglected problems by acting on its own than by letting itself be tied down by allies who cared only for a quiet life. If so, he should by now have learnt that this approach can be expensive, even if it has merits. The countries that opposed the Iraq war, led by France, were too weak to stop America. But they have shown that they have the power to damage its foreign policy simply by means of denunciation and abstention. The worry is that by continuing to denounce and abstain even after a chastened Mr. Bush has complied with their wishes in Iraq, they will achieve the opposite of what they desire, by reinforcing the belief of many Americans that apart from a loyal few, such as the plucky Brits, most European allies are worthless.

$590,000

Pop through Right Wing & Right Minded to see that Michael Moore is offering $10,000 for every unfactual statement made in Fahrenheit 7-11.

So far there's 59. So 59 x $10,000 = ?

Andy Roddick Wins Big in Der Spiegel

Michelle Malkin posts the following:

He may have dumped Mandy Moore and lost Wimbledon, but American tennis star Andy Roddick won my heart with his answer to a German reporter from Der Spiegel who pestered Roddick about his views on the war in Iraq this weekend:

SPIEGEL ONLINE: What about the war?

Roddick: What's that supposed to mean?

SPIEGEL ONLINE: What do you think about the Iraq war? A mistake?

Roddick: One of my best childhood buddies is fighting down there, and of course I hope he comes out of it OK. Listen, it's not my job to make comments about that. As an American, naturally, I support my country. Some things I agree with, others I don't. Thank God I'm not the one who has to make the decisions there. I don't know enough about the whole situation to pass judgment on it.

Game! Set! Match! Hollywood could learn a lessson or two from this young man about patriotism and intellectual humility.

Kerry's Convention Bounce

The GOP predicts John Kerry will get a 15-point bounce from the Convention that will last through August:

Who is John Edwards?

A Disingenuous, Unaccomplished Liberal And Friend To Personal Injury Trial Lawyers

So says GOP analysts here.

Check out Edwards knack for using emotion and not science here.

What is it like to be second best?

Fuck Me and My Family

I just watched Charles Rangel on Harball with Chris Matthews bemoaning military recruitment in minority communities. Ignore the fact that only 13% of the casualties in Iraq were minorities (where minorities make up 30% of the total US population); the Democrats and Michael Moore want you to believe that the military only offers demise and death to minorities that choose to defend this nation for the promise of something better.

I agree, to a point, that if the only option of a college education for minorities lies in military service, there is a problem. But this is totally untrue and I will talk about my family's long service to country to counter this.

My father is black and my mother is white. Both of my grandfathers fought for this nation in the Korean war. My father's father joined the military after spending his childhood as a black youth growing up in rural Texas. Shortly after enlisting, my grandfather was stationed in Japan. He then fought in the Korean war. Two of his children (my father and my uncle) also joined the military as officers. My uncle went to West Point for two years before deciding active duty was not for him. My father, rejected from West Point for his eye-sight, joined ROTC at Univeristy of Arizona and retired as a Lt. Colonel in the US military.

In two generations, the Arnwines went from rural, poor farm hands in Texas to having a Sgt. Major who begat two officers in the US military. My father did more for me than any person could expect from parents--and he did this because of the opportunties provided to him from the military. His Masters' degree in Systems Engineering from UoA was paid for by the military. He enjoys an after-retirement career working for Developmental Test Command at Aberdeen proving ground in Maryland working on such projects as missile defense.

I want Charlie Rangle to speak to my grandfather, all five of his chilren (including my father with a master's degree and my aunt Terrea with a law degree) about how the military only stalks minorities as cannon fodder. My father fought in the first Gulf War and in Somalia. My family did not participate in the "social experiement" military when it became nothing more than a social welfare system: a military where many of it's participants are "pissed off" that they actually have to go to war like those cowards that ran to Canada.

What the fuck? Military people that are pissed off because they have to fight??? Be told! The Democrats do not want an army that fights; they want a military, not bound by the constitution, that they can use as an experiment in socialism. They want women generals--who have never seen combat--giving orders to bridages that have. They want to use the military as their arch-type for universal health care. They want the military to demonstrate the need for socialized college education. A democratic administration will send you on more missions like Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and other places to do social experimentation.

So fuck me and my family for seeing that the military offered chances at education and success that the federal government (even with the civil rights legislation and affirmative action) could not offer.

Fifty-nine Lies

Check out this upcoming post for the National Review Online by Dave Kopel (Ralph Nader supporter) regarding the 59 most obvious lies in Michael Moore's Fuck911 here.

Happy Birthday America!

"Freedom is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to all men and women."
--President George W. Bush